Hello Carl, All,

On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 11:26:07AM -0500, Carl Marcum wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> On 11/13/21 9:47 AM, Arrigo Marchiori wrote:
> > Hello Peter, All,
> > 
> > On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 10:24:20AM +0100, Peter Kovacs wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > I have created a dockerfile that creates an Image to build AOO on.
> > > 
> > > Recently Arrigo tried it, and it did work for him too. I would like to 
> > > query
> > > where you think it would be a good place to put this?
> 
> I'd like to try it also!
> > IMHO we could put it on the SVN repository together with the build
> > scripts.
> > 
> > > The dockerfile depends on centos7 image, with Java 1.8 and an outdated 
> > > ant.
> > > So probably small fixes are needed.
> I don't know if it's feasible but I use SDKMAN on my systems to easily
> switch JDK's and versions of things like Java and Ant.
> 
> It can be downloaded with curl.

If we use individual VM's or containers then this should not be
needed... but it may be useful when building on ``our own'' systems.
Thank you for the pointer!

> > I suggested adding Java 1.7 because it is currently required by the
> > build scripts for 4.2.0-Dev3.
> > 
> > Hover [1] lists Java 8 as minimum requirement for all current and
> > future releases, so... should we rather fix the build script? :-P
> > 
> > > I would maybe add a mwiki page next to our build guides, and have that
> > > explored there. Is this fine or someone has a better idea?
> > +1: the building guide on our mwiki would be IMHO the best place.
> +1 for building guide.
> 
> > 
> > [1]: 
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Target+System+Requirements
> > 
> > Best regards,
> Do you think this could be used on a buildbot?

I think so!

> I don't know much about the process yet but I think there is a problem with
> building on Ubuntu and running on CentOS 7.
> I'll have another thread for that but this maybe a solution.
> 
> Let me know where I can find it.

This reply is very late, so I imagine you solved the problem in the
meantime.

For the sake of the archives, I will try to cover this topic in my
talk at next FOSDEM:
https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/how_to_build_openoffice_today/

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
-- 
Arrigo

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